OSHER 179 - The Master and Margarita or The Devil Only Knows

In the masterpiece, Master and Margarita, the devil (Woland) and his retinue including a huge black cat called Behemoth, visit the Russia of the 1930s during Holy Week. Through his visit to Moscow, this strange group reveals the Soviet world as poshlost(vulgarity, among other things). Juxtaposed to this is a truth as revealed through a recasting of the Pontius Pilate and Christ story as well the love between Master and Margarita. And this, my friends, is just the beginning of the story.